Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
LauraPart IIIXXXII. White art thou, like the mountain-snow to see
Robert Tofte (15611620)W
I Black, like to the burnèd coal do show:
Then give some of thy purest white to me!
And I’ll some of my black on thee bestow:
So will we these two contraries unite
Together; which so joined, will show more fair.
Let ’s both then make this change, for our delight;
Unless to kill me, thou do little care!
But why of White or Black, talk I to thee?
My blood not black ’tis; which thou fain wouldst see.